Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 2 | Just above its melting temperature a polymer behaves like a highly viscous liquid in which the chains are all tangled up with their neighbours . |
| 3 | The defence and prosecution cases are each made up of an introduction , testimonies of witnesses , and a summary . |
| 4 | Note , however , that problems regarding contact may also be resolved by use of the representations procedure which local authorities are obliged to set up under s26 of the Act ( see Chapter 20 ) . |
| 5 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 6 | Sales of 4 x 4 vehicles have continued to boom despite the recession , and both manufacturers are anxious to cash in by marketing differently badged variants . |
| 7 | Good referees are quick to pick up on this and impose penalties for persistent offenders . |
| 8 | Complicated family inter-connections are all trotted out in pointless detail , designed , presumably , to show just how very ‘ in ’ is Lady Colin Campbell . |
| 9 | The argument was on the semantics of how post-sixteen education is presently offered in Banbury , and whereas , of course , they had every right to use the opting out legislation as a governing body , it must be said that the possibility of success under those terms erm is somewhat untried , because of course legislation was specifically geared at Local Education Authorities that do not look after their schools , and thus schools are able to opt out of a badly run , inefficient Education Authority , and we 've seen that happen in many of the urban areas in the country , and indeed some schools have not opted for that . |
| 10 | Only the leading two candidates are entitled to go through to the second round . |
| 11 | The schools were quick to point out to us that they regarded these figures for truancy as an underestimate . |
| 12 | After the seventh war with the Turks ( 1714–18 ) the Venetians were able to advance up to the present Bosnian border , taking in the whole of Sinjsko Polje and Imotski . |
| 13 | Negotiating the allocation encountered problems ( some entrenched Liberal candidates were unwilling to step down in favor of SDP candidates ) but , once achieved , the local party responsible for fielding a candidate made its choice and that candidate was then endorsed by the other party . |
| 14 | It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting behind their backs before the two weary , footsore brothers were able to limp back to their barracks in Number Three Village with their joint quota fulfilled . |
| 15 | If a " person-to-person relationship " is made to carry too great a " flow of power " from the dominant to the subordinate position the connection between the two parties is likely to break up in violence . |
| 16 | The contest between the two candidates was first fought out before cardinals Gaucelin and Luke in England , but in 1318 the case was revoked to the Roman curia at Avignon , where Hamo was himself constrained to go in early 1319 . |
| 17 | People in regions with low house prices are usually unable to afford to purchase a house in a higher priced area , whereas those in the higher priced areas are unwilling to move out in view of the lower capital gains to be made . |
| 18 | A special feature on the Trade Finance team ( they assess whether credit risk countries are likely to cough up for BP oil they have bought ) written by freelancer Mike Martin got a separate award from the judges . |
| 19 | As a result , Brown reckons that the two companies are eager to cash in on such a base to generate interest in their own products . |
| 20 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 21 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 22 | Revealing details of Iraq 's latest assurances delivered on March 20 , Rolf Ekeus , head of the joint UN and International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) special commission on Iraq , told a press conference in New York the same day that his commission was " satisfied there are undertakings that the Iraqis are willing to go along with the destruction [ of ] capabilities " which they had not previously agreed to destroy . |
| 23 | The youngsters were all locked up for days in solitary confinement at children 's homes in Staffordshire . |
| 24 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 25 | Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families , following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s . |
| 26 | The Indians were supposed to look on at what was happening as if these two white men in skirts were barmy . |
| 27 | The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals . |
| 28 | The bills were all made out to Hugo Rune . |
| 29 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 30 | Despite the Children 's Act 's emphasis on partnership with parents , it seems this group of parents is likely to lose out in this most personal and painful arena . |